Rape is not about sex; it's about control. It's a violent and dehumanizing act of power, used to inflict fear and humiliation on the victim. #NoMoreSilence#BreakTheStigma
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—Judge Amy Berman Jackson
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This needs to end!
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Rape culture is when a victim’s validity is questioned
due to; her sobriety, clothes she wears, when, how or if she reports, what her actions were before & after, her virginity, if she’s NICE enough, etc etc.
& yet
4him; we debate the promising future he could miss out on
JK Rowling is no martyr. JK Rowling is a privileged white woman who lives the life of a privileged white woman and uses that privilege to punch down. Salman satirised his religion and has been vilified for ages.
#rapeculture is assuming she’s lying because she doesn’t fit your idea of what a victim SHOULD look & act like
Rape culture is disbelieving her because she didn’t report it in a specific timeframe
Rape culture is doubting a survivor because the accused is a “nice guy”
Do you really think the person capable of sexual assault is incapable of lying about it?
Newsflash; lying, hiding & pretending are part of a rapists arsenal. Not all rapists are psychopaths, but all sexual predators have a familiarity with a duplicitous lifestyle
Some of u may not know this, but women are under no obligation to be friendly, accommodating, pretty, thin, silent or submissive so that weak, misogynistic men feel more comfortable.
& we don’t have to courtesy laugh at sexist jokes or add “if that’s ok?” to our sentences
We need to allow survivors to be angry and messy and imperfect. We need to allow survivors to heal at their own pace, in their own way, w/out concluding they’re unreliable because they don’t behave how we think they should. There is no right or wrong way for victims to behave.
Victims are depicted a certain way on screen causing cynical disbelief when actual victims “go off script” & behave differently. That unrealistic, critical judgment of a victims behavior and timeline makes it that much more difficult for future victims to speak out.
If you’re doubting yourself & questioning whether or not what happen to you was sexual assault or not I need you to hear this: in a consensual, healthy sexual encounter there is no ambiguity.